Street-O @ Smith's Dell

I decided to wear a long-sleeve thermal top under my club t-shirt tonight, because I have trouble with the internal temperature control. I'm okay while I'm running, but I cool off so fast afterwards and end up shivering all the way home.

The experiment worked well. I was warm during the run, but not excessively; I didn't turn into an iceberg 2 seconds after stopping; and there was an unexpected bonus in that I was warm from the start. Normally it takes me 10-15 minutes to warm up and start running comfortably - tonight it took 5 minutes. Felt like I was running strongly too.

I paid for it during the last 5 minutes though - I ran out of steam during the last long slow hill up to the last control. Made it home with a comfortable 40 seconds to spare.

Distance	Avg pace	Avg HR
7.7 km	6:06 /km	161 bpm (84%)

This was the second-to-last event in the Autumn Series, and up until tonight I'm sitting 4 points behind Jacqui in our division. So I have to find 2 extra points for each of the next two weeks. We're pretty sure that I beat her tonight, but the number of points will depend on who else placed in between us. Oh, the tension!!